Unclassified road crash in Westminster W1C on 26 December 2010 at 21:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Westminster at 21:40 on Sunday 26 December 2010. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2010
- Sunday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51526, longitude -0.14459, in the W1C postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201001TA00481
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 30 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DM00477
Serious
Gilera Runner 125 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 22 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00090
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 11 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW10646
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 17 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199601DM00808
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 6 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010143513
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 August 1992
14 m awayRef 199201DM00287
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201001TA00481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 2010.